A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated 450
Roland Piquepaille writes "There are some sure things in life, such as death and taxes. When you are heating a solid, you expect it will melt and when you're boiling water, you're pretty certain that it will turn into vapor. But what about a liquid that becomes solid when it's heated? Of course, it has already been done, for example in the chemical process of polymerization. But now, PhysicsWeb writes that a team of French physicists has discovered a law-breaking liquid that defies the rules. When you heat it between 45 and 75C, it becomes solid. But the process is fully reversible, and this is a world's premiere. When you decrease the temperature, this solid melts and turns again into a liquid. I'm not sure of the implications of such a phenomenon, but it's fascinating. Read more for essential details."
Weird, but cool! (Score:5, Funny)
The Matrix anyone?
Cookie dough batter (Score:3, Funny)
Cookie dough batter turns to solid in oven when heated. (Yeah, yeah, it's not reversible...)
What?! (Score:5, Funny)
I read about this a while back.. (Score:5, Funny)
What a shocker... (Score:2, Funny)
Now we can buy (Score:5, Funny)
Damn Frenchies... (Score:0, Funny)
Gotta say it... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:chemistry (Score:3, Funny)
actually . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Re:speculation on applications? (Score:5, Funny)
You go to Target to buy a 12-pack of "One-Time Use Thermometers."
Instructions: "When the temperature is between 45 and 75 degrees celcius, the liquid inside turns to a solid, shattering the glass! That's all there is to it!"
Re:what it says (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Gets hard when you heat it? (Score:5, Funny)
Roland Piquepaille (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know chemistry (Score:5, Funny)
Plazanet and colleagues prepared a liquid solution containing ?-cyclodextrine (?CD), water and 4-methylpyridine (4MP).
Is it edible?
Damnable Hydrogen Bonds (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Assassins take note! (Score:4, Funny)
Bah, I do this all the time... (Score:3, Funny)
Placing the solid into my fridge, and again forgetting it for say, 2 or 3 weeks, reduces the solid back into a liquid.
Though I havn't personally tried it, I'm fairly certain that if I were to return the liquid back to the oven, and again properly forget about it, that I would again get a solid.
Re:speculation on applications? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cookie dough batter (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Now we can buy (Score:5, Funny)
So you live on a diet consisting exclusively of salt, sand, battery acid, and water? What, are you some kind of robot? If so, what are your powers? Do you use them for good, or for awesome?
Practicle jokes (Score:2, Funny)
Room cools, everything falls apart.
Re:The Law (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Now we can buy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What a shocker... (Score:3, Funny)
The Americans call the French pussys and cowards...
The French call the Americans arrogant and, uh, bigots...
You must be french.
BTW: The whole thing is a joke anyway. Don't get your panties in a bunch. Pussy.
Re:What a shocker... (Score:1, Funny)
Americans = bigots
OR
Americans = saviors
It all depends on whether the German army is currently in Paris or not.
Re:I'm not sure this is that new (Score:4, Funny)
New deodorant? (Score:5, Funny)
OK, I'm just spitballing here.
Re:I don't know chemistry (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Weird, but cool! (Score:5, Funny)
Yes - it's survival of the fittest. Those bugs that could hide the best (until they show up to bite you in the ass) will do so.
Re:speculation on applications? (Score:2, Funny)
Can they line condoms with this stuff? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Weird, but cool! (Score:3, Funny)
He's probably just studied some philosophy. Get a clue. Or a PHIL minor. Or something.
All of the above.
Or (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Weird, but cool! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:speculation on applications? (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe the problem you're not made of this stuff, and remain soft when things heat up.
Re:Now we can buy hot cubes (Score:2, Funny)
Plus if you hold your coffee cup between your legs in the car it could give your future children an opportunity for advantageous mutations. Of couse they could also turn out to be complete freaks but these days they're likely to turn out to be complete freaks anyhow so it is not like anyone would notice.
Re:what it says (Score:5, Funny)
And if you expect me to tell you how this discovery will modify our lives, you're going to be disappointed. I've not a slightest idea about it, even if I find fascinating that scientists always find new ways to break rules and shake our certitudes.
What I see:
I am a chemist that has discovered a class of mixtures with a very interesting and heretofor unobserved property. I have published information on how to prepare these mixtures--in a way, it is a solution looking for a problem. I expect that given a small group of engineers, a dozen or so different applications could be hashed out over their morning coffee. I am disappointed--but not surprised--that a Slashdot reader couldn't be bothered to use his imagination to come up with an application, preferring to instead complain that no ideas were spoon-fed in the brief PhysicsWeb note.